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Influence of the neodymium concentration on the magnetic properties of mixed spin Haldane system (Y1-xNdx)2BaNiO5
The magnetic properties of (Y1-xNdx)2BaNiO5 with different concentration of neodymium are investigated by means of specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, and spectroscopic measurements. We estimate a magnetic contribution of the neodymium subsystem into magnetic susceptibility and specific heat using temperature dependences of the splitting of the ground Kramers doublet of the Nd3+ ion obtained from spectroscopic experiment. It allows us to determine the concentration dependence of Neel temperature as well as particularizes of the nickel subsystem. The temperature of the magnetic ordering decreases gradually with decreasing concentration of the neodymium in the compounds of the family of (Y1-xNdx)2BaNiO5 without any sharp jump, i.e. it doesn’t point to the critical point, and verifiers from 47 K (x=1) down to almost zero for compound with x=0.01. We show that Haldane phase of the nickel chain in every compound occurs in both paramagnetic and ordering phases. We emphasize the observed spin-glass state as well as an anomaly in the temperature dependence of the magnetic susceptibility below ~5K is due to magnetization of the segments of the Ni chain.